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Korg Kronos Pedals, Rambling and Questions

 
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blazerunner
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2022 6:24 pm    Post subject: Korg Kronos Pedals, Rambling and Questions Reply with quote

Hello,

After years of wanting I finally brought a Korg DS1H. I blame my own ignorance but when I went to plug it in... I realized the Kronos has 3 inputs for pedals, Something that says PEDAL,SWITCH, and DAMPER. What? What in the world are all these pedal inputs for? I plugged the DS1H into the Damper port but I'm curious about the other two.

Call me ignorant... call me a fool but I only ever used pedals on my Yamaha keyboards and they only ever had 1 port called "foot switch" for the pedal. When you plugged in a pedal to the "foot switch" input on the Yamaha keyboards the port was actually for a sustain pedal.

The Kronos has 3 inputs though none of them say "sustain". So you all can have a good laugh at me I wasn't even thinking about the DS1H being a Piano damper pedal. I was thinking I would plug it into the back of the Kronos and it would be a sustain pedal like on my Yamaha's.

Peeking through the manual again it mentions you can assign pedals to do things. (It's a crazy long and impressive list of stuff I can't wait to try). So I'm guessing my DS1H is only a Piano Damper Pedal and I have to purchase a separate pedal and plug it into the Pedal Port and assign it to one of those other features like "Sustano" to get my Sustain pedal???

I have an Nord Electro 5 that I haven't brought a pedal for yet. Nord sells their Sustain pedal which is 99bucks (why I haven't brought it yet). If I get the Nord NSP Sustan Pedal can I use it on the Kronos "Pedal Port" and assign "Sustano" to it?

I'm looking forward to adding pedals to the Kronos. Sometimes my hands are too bushy playing keys to reach over and touch the joy sticks or ribbon controller. I'm just a dummy that's not familiar with using Piano's on such a beast like the King of all Keyboards the Kronos.... btw did anyone notice that the King Korg kind of silently vanished from production? Hope the Kronos doesn't vanish the same way.
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voip
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2022 8:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The Damper port is for the damper (sustain) pedal. The DS-1H plugged into this port also has the benefit of giving half damper control. It needs calibrating before use, to work properly, and allows for more expressive play of the piano.

An expression pedal can be plugged into the Pedal port, and used for expression, modulation, as a breath controller "source" and a host of other functions.

A switch pedal connected to the Switch port can be used to e.g. advance through the entries in a setlist, act as a Tap Tempo input, control Sostenuto, amongst others.

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blazerunner
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 06, 2022 10:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

voip wrote:
The Damper port is for the damper (sustain) pedal. The DS-1H plugged into this port also has the benefit of giving half damper control. It needs calibrating before use, to work properly, and allows for more expressive play of the piano.

An expression pedal can be plugged into the Pedal port, and used for expression, modulation, as a breath controller "source" and a host of other functions.

A switch pedal connected to the Switch port can be used to e.g. advance through the entries in a setlist, act as a Tap Tempo input, control Sostenuto, amongst others.

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HAHAHA this is like some Mandela effect stuff. I thought the Damper pedal dampened the sound and made the notes play softer... (like muting strings) and the sustain pedal sustained your notes by holding the tones. Dude they can't just switch piano and guitar up terms like that. They've got to stick with one.

Thanks Voip this is why I come here to learn the insight from Keyboard masters like yourself.
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voip
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PostPosted: Fri Jan 07, 2022 10:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The felt-covered damper bar in a grand piano is raised by the sustain pedal to remove the damping of the strings and thus produce the sustain effect ;-)

I agree that calling it the Damper input is counterintuitive but, hey.

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